Imagine cherishing your child and, against all odds, miraculously keeping them safe for over a year of genocide, only for some scumbag coward to snipe that child in the beautiful head that you kissed a million times.
Israelis promised some of the poorest people on earth $400,000 and a chance to escape death if they betrayed Yahya Sinwar and none of them would do it. Over here in the richest country on earth people stay silent about genocide to protect their acting careers. What a contrast
🇵🇸🇮🇱 It says a lot that Israelis thought this drone footage would make them look good.
Israeli channels said he "died like a dog", yet almost everyone acknowledged there was the stuff of legend in Sinwar's last stand: at age 61, he continued fighting after being shelled by a tank, managed to lob grenades at incoming IDF soldiers and created a makeshift tourniquet using iron wire from the rubble for his injured arm.
For a year, Sinwar has been portrayed by Israel as a rat scurrying through tunnels surrounded by human shields. But in the first and final image of him he is above ground, entirely covered in dust as if being swallowed into the rubble of Gaza, fighting to his last breath.
The Israeli response to the footage shows how fundamentally different Jewish culture is as it concerns honour. As you see with IDF soldiers wearing women's clothes and playing with kids' toys in the houses of Gaza, they are strangely blind to the revulsion this kind of glee in humiliating their enemies illicits in people with a sense of honour.
The only humiliation they recognise as real is collective dominance -- their own holy books are filled with stories of their own humiliation at the hands of larger empires. The IDF soldiers who r*pe prisoners or video themselves dancing on the rubble of Gaza are not only defended in Israel, they are celebrated. There is no sense of personal humiliation for a person acting from a position of dominance, humiliation is only external.
Weininger wrote that what characterises Jewish culture more than anything is a lack of piety. As is reflected in the contrast of the New Testament to the Old, the idea that someone from a position of complete defeat and external humiliation could yet be seen as noble and heroic due to his internal piety and resolve is totally alien to them.
Israel released more footage of Yahya Sinwar’s final moments. Here we see him wounded and immobilized in a post-apocalyptic setting as an Israeli tank fires at him. Could he have imagined this was being filmed and that the occupation would be foolish enough to publish it, thereby cementing his legendary status?
Scenes unfolding today in Gaza show civilians being rounded up by soldiers, with reports of summary executions. We are documenting all of this to preserve the memory of the victims and to hold the perpetrators accountable. All eyes are on the (north) Gaza!
#EndIsraeliImpunity
The IDF bombed a clearly marked vehicle and killed four engineers going to repair water infrastructure in southern Gaza after they had coordinated the trip with Israeli authorities, Oxfam says https://t.co/pb007Yz4YI